Exhibit 4.17

FEDERAL SURVEILLANCE SERVICE FOR COMMUNICATIONS

LICENSE

No. 31114

Details of the Licensee:

Open Joint Stock Company

Vimpel-Communications

Location:

127083, Moscow, Ul. 8-Marta, 10, bldg. 14

Type of Services:

Telematic telecommunications services

This License includes license terms on 2 pages



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|Term of validity of the License:    |  | from March 14, 2003 to August 1, 2007
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|Services to be rendered as of       |  |                                       |  |              
|(no later than):                    |  | March 14, 2004                       
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|Deputy Head                         |  | /s/ S.A. Malyanov                    
|of the Federal Surveillance Service |  | [Signature]                           |  | S.A. Malyanov
|for Communications                  |  | [Seal]                                |  |              



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Federal Surveillance Service for Communications

Terms of Activities under License # 31114**

1. OAO
Vimpel-Communications (the Licensee) shall comply with the term of this License.

2. The Licensee shall commence the provision of telecommunication
services under this License not later than March 14, 2004.

3. The Licensee shall render telecommunications services in accordance with this License
only in the territory of Republic of Karelia, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov Oblasts, the city of St. Petersburg.

4. Under this License the Licensee shall provide the subscriber and/or the user* with:

a) facsimile transmission;

b) e-mail messaging;

c) access to information using
information communications technologies.

5. The Licensee shall provide telecommunications services in compliance with the rules on provision of
telecommunications services approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

6. In the course of rendering the telecommunications services the
Licensee shall observe the rules for interconnection of the telecommunications lines and interaction thereof approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, as they apply to the interconnection of the data transmission network of the Licensee
to the public telecommunications network, interconnection of other telecommunications networks to the data transmission network of the Licensee, recording and throughput of traffic in the data transmission network of the Licensee, and recording and
throughput of traffic from and to the telecommunications networks of other operators.

7. This License is issued upon the review of the application for
reissuance of License # 25340 dated March 14, 2003, without tender (auction, bidding). No license requirements relating to performance by the Licensee of obligations assumed by it in the course of tender (auction, bidding) towards receipt
of the License, are established.

8. In the course of provision of service under this License the Licensee shall meet the requirements set forth in the
course of radio frequency band allocation and radio frequency or channel designation.

9. The Licensee shall ensure that the networks and communication
devices meet the technical requirements set forth by the Federal Executive Authority for Telecommunications as agreed upon with the authorized state bodies carrying out investigations, with the view to assist in conducting of such investigations, as
well as take steps to prevent disclosure of the organizational and tactical methods of such investigations.



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10. The Licensee is not a general service operator. No license requirements relating to general telecommunications
services under general telecommunications services agreements are established.



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|* | Provision of services contemplated in this License can be supplemented by the provision of other services that are technologically interconnected with the services of the mobile
radiotelephony telecommunications within the public telecommunications network, and aimed at the increase of their customer value, if a separate license is not required therefore.
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|** | This License is issued to replace License No. 25340 dated March 14, 2003.
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|Deputy Head of the Federal Surveillance
Service |  | /s/ S.A. Malyanov
|for Communications                              |  | [signature]       |  | S.A. Malyanov
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